Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow, (also Alexej Jljitsch Baschlakow, russian Алексей Ильич Башлаков), born 6th of august 1936 in Slaboda/Orjol (Sovjet Union, now Russia), died 27th of november 1980 in Hannover (Germany), was a russian artist, painter and sculptor. The multi-award-winning artist mainly painted oil paintings in harsh forms and colors, created artistically designed glass windows and, in the years before his untimely death, also sculptural works.

LIFE: 

Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow was born in 1936 in Strajizilskaya Slaboda, Russia. At the end of the war, when Baschlakow was still a child, he came to Völksen near Springe in Germany.

After graduating from secondary school in Springe, Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow completed an apprenticeship as a painter in Hanover from 1954, during which time he lived in Ahlem. With the help of a "Henry Ford scholarship" in 1958 and 1959 he was then able to study at the Hanover School of Art under the painter Gerhard Wendland. Baschlakow then took part in various art exhibitions, for the first time in 1960 in Munich.

In the meantime, Baschlakov had traveled to Paris in 1964, where he visited the artist Serge Poliakoff, among others. In the following year, 1965, Baschlakow's works were shown for the first time in a solo exhibition by the Brusberg Gallery in Hanover. In 1966 he received the "Förderpreis der Niedersächsisches Kunstpreis" and was able to stay in Rome for study purposes in 1967 and 1968 thanks to the Villa Massimo Scholarship (Award).

Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow became a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund; his name can be found in the DKB membership directory from 1970. In that year he took part in the DKB annual exhibition Prisma '70 in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn with two large-format oil paintings. In 1971 Baschlakow traveled to New York together with the gallery owner Dieter Brusberg.

Another study visit to Florence in 1974 was made possible for Alexej Ilyich Baschlakow by a Wormland scholarship. In the following year, 1975, the artist resumed his work as a teacher. He died at the age of only 44.

• The Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen/Germany owns at least one work by Baschlakow.